John Fund offers the most compelling defense of Sarah Palin's resignation that I have come across. "Since Ms. Palin returned to Alaska after the 2008 campaign, some 150 FOIA requests have been filed and her office has been targeted for investigation by everyone from the FBI to the Alaska legislature," Fund's "Why Palin Quit" notes. "Most have centered on Ms. Palin's use of government resources, and to date have turned up little save for a few state trips that she agreed to reimburse the state for because her children had accompanied her. In the process, though, she accumulated $500,000 in legal fees in just the last nine months, and knew the bill would grow ever larger in the future." The personal toll must be staggering, but the gist of Fund's article is that the toll such attacks took upon the process of governing were, in Palin's estimation, insurmountable, which is why she resigned. "Attacks inside Alaska and largely invisible to the national media had paralyzed her administration," a source close to Palin explained to Fund. "She was fully aware she would be branded a 'quitter.' She did not want to disappoint her constituents, but she was no longer able to do the job she had been elected to do. Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself." This is certainly a more noble reason to resign than a desire to sell books, pocket honorarium, and land your very own talk show. One's view of Sarah Palin probably predetermines one's view of why she resigned.

"From the start of her vice-presidential campaign, she directed staffers to devote time and energy to quashing untrue or extraneous blog rumors. This weekend, she directed her lawyers to preemptively block stories about a federal investigation that wasn't even happening."

-Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/07/if_ethics_charge_costs_caused.html

Most of the legal fees Palin incurred were the result of her preemptive legal maneuvers that were completely unnecessary, if indeed the complaints had no merit (this takes for granted that the complaints had no merit, they quite possibly did and were covered up by clever legal chicanery). The bottom line is that she cannot tolerate criticism of any sort, let alone questions that center on legitimate abuse of power concerns. She was a tyrant on the campaign trail with McCain and incredibly abusive to staffers (such as the classy Nicolle Wallace), she was a tyrant in Wasilla, and judging by her ludicrous over-reactions in the media, she's a megalomaniac who's tyrannical about everything and everyone.

"This weekend, she directed her lawyers to preemptively block stories about a federal investigation that wasn't even happening. And frequently in between, she's peppered the 'mainstream media elite' and 'liberal blogosphere' and those 'old politics of personal destruction'."

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This is at best a sad joke and behavior totally unworthy of a public servant and political leader. I don't recall George Bush or Bill Clinton whining this much, and they had it 10 times worse.

its the only way dems can get there way is by using the courts. Palin 2012, revenge will be sweet.